Lantern-lighting device.



No. 846,116] PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907. o. s. LELAND & H. R. HYSOM.

LANTERN LIGHTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 190B.

dtbocnpip THE NORRIS PETERS co., wlsnmcrolv. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. LELAND AND HOLLIS R. HYSOM, OF MOUNT DESERT, MAINE.

LANTERN-LIGHTING DEVICE.

Application filed May 81 To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES S. LELAND and HoLLrs R. HYsoM, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Mount Desert, in the county of Hancockand State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inLantern-Lighting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our present invention is toprovide an improvedconstruction of lighting attachment for lanterns; and the presentembodiment of the invention is particularly designed for that particularconstruction of lantern described in our application for patent, SerialNo. 319,540, of even date herewith.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and alsoto acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means foreffecting the result reference is to be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of alantern embodying our improved lighting device. Fig. 2 is a detailsectional view of the lighting device, a portion being broken away. Fig.3 is a top plan view Corresponding and like parts are referred to in thefolllowing description and indicated in all the views of the drawings bythe same reference characters.

The lantern comprises a base 1, a frame 2, designed to carry the chimney4, a burner 3,

' mounted in a wire basket 5, carried by the frame 2, and a perforateddraft-ring 6, secured in said basket and adapted to directly support thelower edge of the chimney 4.

The present invention comprehends a lighting attachment shown applied tothe type of lantern above described, though it is to be understood thatit is clearly applicable to lanterns of other types and structures. Theinvention consists of a cylinder 7, extending upwardly and inwardlythrough an opening 8 in the perforated draft-ring 6 and detachablymounted therein. The cylinder 7 is provided at its upper and inner endwith converging fingers 9, and a plunger 10 is mounted in the cylinderand 1s provided at its rear and lower end with a finger-piece 11 in theform of a disk. A compression-spring 12 encircles the rear end of thecylinder 7 and is attached thereto and to the plunger, the tension ofsaid spring acting to drive the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

,1906. Serial No. 319,541.

plunger forwardly in the cylinder. A feedtube 13 is detachably connectedto the cylinder 7 bymeans of alaterally-extending nipple 7, formed onthe cylinder and attached to the lower end of the tube 13 by a swivelcoupling 7 The feed-tube is provided at its upper end with a screw-capor other similar cap 14 to close it, and it is held in place, proferablyin a detachable manner, by fastening devices, such as detachable clips15, which extend around the tube and around one member of theburner-frame 2. The inner end of the cylinder 7 is located contiguous tothe burner-slot 3 of the burner 3, as clearly illustrated in thedrawings.

'lhe feed-tube 13 is intended to contain igniting-pellets, and the lowerend of the feedtube communicates with the interior of the cylinder. Tolight the lantern, the plunger 10 is retracted sufficiently far topermit one of the pallets to enter the cylinder. Then the plunger isreleased and the spring 12 will drive it forwardly to carry saidignitingpellets toward the converging fingers 9 and through the samewith abrasive action, which will cause the. pellets to ignite, andthereby light the wick.

From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, it will be seen that we have provided a lanternlighting devicewhich will always be at hand to light the lantern without matches orother independent accessories and by means of which the lantern may belighted with the chimney down around the burner, thereby avoiding thenecessity of exposing the burner to light the Wick, under whichcircumstances it would be exposed to the wind.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is Thecombination with a lantern provided with a frame embodying side members,a draft-ring within the frame and a burner above the draft-ring, and acylinder extending upwardly and inwardly through an opening in saiddraft-ring and detachably secured in said opening and provided with asideopening nipple, the inner end of said cylinder being provided withconverging fingers, a plunger slidable within the cylinder from the rearend thereof, a spring encircling the cylinder in the rear of saidnipple, and secured to the cylinder and to the said plunger whereby ICOto press the plunger forwardly within thecylinder, said plunger beingprovided at its In testimony whereof We affix our signarear end With afinger-piece, a feed-tube for tures in presence of two Witnesses.

igniting-pellets extending vertically along one slde member 01 theframe, a swivel-cap connecting the lower end of said tube With thenipple and the cylinder, and detachable clips 15 connecting thefeed-tube to the side member of the lantern-frame.

CHARLES S. LELAND. [L. s.] HOLLIS R. HYSOM. [L. 5.] Witnesses:

M. L. ALLEN,

J AMES ALLEN.

